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GEICO insurance companies can’t dismiss a South Carolina lawsuit that demands they pay almost $70 million in back taxes and penalties, a federal judge ruled in a case that could ultimately affect how insurance taxes are collected by cities in …

One worker died and two were injured in a trench collapse at a construction site in a popular seacoast town on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The trench collapse happened on Tuesday morning at a sewer project work site located at 152 …

Amazon’s self-driving unit Zoox opened its waitlist on Tuesday for users in San Francisco, offering free rides, just days after Alphabet’s Waymo said it will provide robotaxi rides in the same market. Zoox said it is inviting people to ride …

Honeycomb Insurance has begun writing policies in Colorado. The digital managing general agency specializes in property/casualty coverage for landlords and condominium associations. The company’s underwriting platform evaluates properties individually using high-resolution imagery and technology. Honeycomb now operates across 20 states …

A 35-year-old Ohio man has pleaded guilty to computer fraud for hacking his former employer’s network after he was fired, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei. On May 14, 2021, Maxwell Schultz, Columbus, Ohio, was terminated from his position as …

World Insurance Associates reported it has acquired the business of Bafumi Insurance Agency of Middletown, Connecticut. Terms of the August 1, 2025 transaction were not disclosed. A family business, the agency is led by Guido and Lauren Bafumi and sells …

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce asked the Supreme Court to pause new California laws expected to require thousands of companies to report emissions and climate-risk information. The laws are the most sweeping of their kind in the nation, and a …

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at the specialty insurer Tokio Marine Kiln and the MGA Augmented UW. A summary of these new hires follows here. TMK Taps Beazley’s Silvestre as Head of Cyber Reinsurance Solutions Tokio Marine …

GEICO and fleet management company Motive have partnered to improve drive safety and drive down insurance prices for commercial fleets. Motive’s artificial intelligence-powered operations platform integrates fleet management, spend management, equipment and temperature monitoring, compliance, and workforce management in one …

The registration deadline for the current round of Louisiana Fortify Homes Program (LFHP) grants has been extended to 5 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 20, due to the national Cloudflare outage on Tuesday, the Louisiana Department of Insurance said. Homeowners who …

Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt announced a Johnson county man has been sentenced to 12 months of probation for insurance fraud. Macario Butler, age 28, pleaded guilty on November 7, 2025 in Johnson County District Court to one misdemeanor count …

A fatigue crack in the Keystone Pipeline led to an oil spill in North Dakota earlier this year that released thousands of barrels of oil onto farmland, according to the pipeline operator. In a quarterly report released Thursday, South Bow …

Firefighters in southeastern Texas were battling a blaze at a decommissioned power plant that sent large plumes of smoke into the air on Sunday and local officials warned area residents to avoid the smoke. The fire broke out at the …

The American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA) continues to throw support behind two bills schedule for markup today by the House Judiciary Committee. Committee member Rep. Darell Issa, R-Calif., in February introduced the Litigation Transparency Act of 2025 (HR 1109) …

The Trump administration is weighing whether to relocate the Federal Emergency Management Agency to Texas and tap the state’s top emergency official to lead it, Politico reported Monday, citing two former senior FEMA officials. In February, Trump interviewed Nim Kidd, …

A worldwide outage at the network of cybersecurity firm Cloudflare Inc. has been resolved after several hours of disruption on Tuesday. The outage had taken down the websites for everything from the chief US energy regulator, ChatGPT, the New Jersey …

CVS Pharmacy Inc. has settled alleged violations of the California False Claims Act with California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the United States Department of Justice. The settlement agreement requires CVS to pay $18.2 million. It resolves allegations that between …

The price tag for rebuilding Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge is now more than double what officials estimated in 2024 right after the bridge was struck by a container shop and collapsed. The Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) yesterday updated the …

A new property-catastrophe reinsurance MGA, Bobcat Re, has been launched by a group of private investors, including former K2 CAT executives David Carson and James Sharpington as well as Glenn T. Jackson from Safepoint. Headquartered in Tampa and with an …

Alphabet Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said no company would be unscathed if the artificial intelligence boom collapses, as soaring valuations and heavy investment in the sector fuel concerns of a bubble. Pichai said in an interview with the BBC published …